August 30, 2022
Camilo Guevara
Camilo Guevara March, son of the legendary Cuban-Argentine guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara, who for many years dedicated himself to preserve the memory of his father, from the Center dedicated to the study and dissemination of the thought of the Hero of the Battle of Santa Clara, died yesterday at the age of 60.
In his Twitter account, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, expressed his condonlences; “With deep sorrow we say goodbye to Camilo, son of Che and promoter of his ideas, as a director of the Che Center, which preserves part of the extraordinary legacy of his father. An embrace to his mother, Aleida, to his widow and daughters and to all the Guevara March family”.
Diplomatic sources confirmed that his death was due to a pulmonary thrombolism, which resulted in a heart attack while he was in Caracas Venezuela, according to information published by Prensa Latina news agency.
At the time of his death, Camilo, who was four years old when his father was assassinated in Bolivia, was project director of the Che Guevara Study Center in Havana, an institution in charge of promoting the knowledge of his father’s thought, life and work.
When one looks at him or listens to his words, it is clear that Camilo Guevara has always been unmistakably his father’s son. His appearance hints at how Che’s well-known traits would have matured had he not been assassinated in Bolivia at the tender age of 40, at the height of his anti-imperialist efforts.
Born in the early 1960s, he lived passionately to preserve Che’s legacy and ensure that his father’s timeless words and ideas, as well as his actions, were remembered around the world.
Source: Granma, translation Resumen Latinoamericano – US